Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Design of Dissent
Curated by Milton Glaser, Mirko Ilic, and Civilization

Non-Breaking Space, a new non-profit gallery by Civilization devoted to showcasing important works of graphic design, is opening its first exhibition "The Design of Dissent" on February 2nd from 5:30–9PM. The exhibit includes over 50 graphic works of social and political protest from 1964 to today.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

W Magazine, in their new article "The New Art of Protest Signs In Trump's America" has a few of my thoughts about the design of protest signs.

Here's one of them:

“It’s very sweet that today, in a time when you can print better and cheaper than ever and everyone has access to printing, people decide to get markers and oils and paints and write signs in their own handwriting," said Ilic. "It’s not mechanical; it’s you. It’s your signature, and you sign off on that sign by doing it by hand.”

Thursday, January 5, 2017

The AIGA blog features SVA's underground poster campaign which began in 1947 and includes the work of many artist and design notables such as George Tscherny, Milton Glaser, and Louise Fili. In 2013, "Underground Images" an exhibition of these posters curated by Anthony Rhodes and I, traveled to cities around the world.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

I have quite a few originals of Rip Kirby comics by John Prentice, but I still decided to acquire this particular comic from 1967.
I did this not only because I read it when I was a kid, but also because I was fascinated with the simple trick of positioning of Desmond's feet. By doing this Prentice suggests that he doesn't have control over his body, that he is sleepwalking.